No. 40: Black Jet Baking Co.'s Nutella-Hazelnut Hand Pie
Categories: SFoodie's 50
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| Jonathan Kauffman |
| Black Jet Baking Co.'s not-Pop-Tart |
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Though, if we're going to tell the truth, SFoodie will admit that eating Black Jet's hand pies is a two-hand affair: Given the way the crust flakes, we need to keep one hand below our lips at all times to catch the spray of debris.
Seriously, that crust is pretty remarkable, composed of frail flakes of pastry so wide they almost stretch from one edge to the other, as if bakers Gillian Shaw and Max Newman were secretly working with phyllo instead of all-butter pastry. And while the flavor of the filling in the fruit pies doesn't always come through, in the Nutella-hazelnut version both chocolate and salted, ground hazelnuts assert themselves. You taste, simultaneously, the chocolate-hazelnut fusion of Nutella as well as its two component flavors. It's like being able to watch a 3-D film without glasses and see both the doubled-up images and the 3-D composite at the same time.
Black Jet Baking Co.: Ferry Building, stall 38b, 845-9925, and available at cafes such as Matching Half, Ritual Roasters, and Atlas Cafe.
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43: Iced coffee from Sightglass
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42: Perbacco's agnolotti dal plin
43: Iced coffee from Sightglass
44: Cypress Grove's Purple Haze Chevre
45: Lechon from Tastebuds Cuisine
46: Duck with beets from AQ
47: Tai nigiri at ICHI Sushi
48: Fish with explosive chiles from Spices!
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Black Jet Baking Co.
1 Ferry Bldg, San Francisco, CA
Category: Restaurant
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